Wild Horse Gathers to Resume in Nevada January 3

According to KNTV.com and the BLM website, The Bureau of Land Management is ready to resume gathers of wild horses and burros in the Calico Complex on January 3.

This will continue the BLM program begun November 19, 2011 and suspended December 20th for a holiday shutdown.  The BLM and contractor had finished the planned gathers for the western portion of the Calico Herd Management Area and now they will continue the round-up in the eastern section.

They had gathered 1,048 horses and 10 burros of which 187 mares and stallions were returned to the area.  The released mares had all been treated with fertility control.

The remaining animals will be prepared for adoption.  Those that are not adopted will be placed in pastures where they will considered "wild" under the 1971 Free-Roaming Horses Act.

The BLM website states:

Of the wild horses released back to the range, approximately 85 to 115  mares would receive a 22-month Porcine Zona Pellucida (PZP-22) immunocontraceptive vaccine treatment and 235 to 265 stallions would be released due to sex ratio adjustments (60 percent male/40 percent female). The goal of the fertility treatments and sex ratio adjustments is to slow population growth and maintain population size within the appropriate management level, and extend the time before a gather to remove excess wild horses would be needed.

For more information check the BLM website and the local Las Vegas News (KTNV).

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